LILKE
LEVIN (d. 1945)
She was born in Vilna, the daughter
of a paper merchant. She was deported
from the Vilna ghetto to concentration camps in Latvia and later in
Germany. She was killed in the days of
the camp liberation by rampant Soviet soldiers.
In Lider fun getos un lagern (Songs
of the ghettos and camps), p. 261, Sh. Katsherginski makes note of her song “In
dinaverk” (In Dinaverk), a camp in Latvia.
She died in the Dinaverk concentration camp.
Source:
Sh. Katsherginski, Lider fun getos and
lagern (Songs of the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948), p. 261.
Yankev Kahan
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 348.]
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